Jan 27 Do you live a life that chases security or a life that risks living by faith?

All my life, I've associated my faith and God with protection and security.
But the more I've grown and the more I've realized that our faith in God and our mortal security rarely coincide with one another.

God doesn't promise us financial security or physical safety. He actually tells us that if we follow Him, we will be persecuted (2 Timothy 3:12).

The only thing God promises us is that he will walk with us through the valleys of this life and eternal security - which is a lot, but often times it is not enough for us.

It wasn't enough for me until recently.

In college, I chose the degree that I thought would give me the best job security, not the degree that I was the most passionate about or the degree I was gifted in.

Not that I don't love nursing or that it hasn't been an incredible blessing in my life - Because it has, and I do. I love taking care of patients and being there for people and working with an awesome team.

But if I am being honest, my passion is writing. My passion is also people and nursing is one of the ways I pursue that passion, but my reasons for not pursuing writing in college were unfaithful to say the least.

I didn't trust God with my gifts. I didn't trust that He would provide for me if I pursued my passion for writing. I didn't trust that I was good enough to chase that dream.

And to be quite honest, I could continue to pursue writing and never see the slightest bit of "success" as this world defines it. Because God doesn't promise us or teach us to be successful in the ways that this world deems successful.

God's definition of success is that His love and glory be made known - sometimes just to one person and sometimes to 7 million.

And that's the risk we have when we walk by faith. We risk not being successful in the eyes of this world. We risk not having our dream house or our dream car or our dream vacation. Sometimes walking by faith even means that we risk our lives.

His glory may be made known through our success or through our failures, through our lives or in our death - but that is not for us to decide.

The only thing we have to decide is this: Will we live a life chasing after this world's temporary security or will step out and risk living a life by faith, that promises eternal security?

It's up to us. He's ready to use us. He's ready to provide for us. He's ready to set our lives a part from the rest of this world. He's waiting on you.

Join the Community

Follow Me On Instagram

Most Recent Post

In a conversation with my roommates the other day, I compared walking through this life with walking through a minefield...

There would be some seasons of life where we would be walking in between the buried land mines, but we were bound to step on a few along the way.

That was my life advice for our conversation that we were having about all the many changes that life brings and all the hard things we seem to have to go through to learn and grow.

To which my roommate so lovingly and semi-sarcastically responded, "Wow, Anna. That was really helpful."

lol.

If you know me well, you know that I can tend to take a slightly critical view on things. I'd like to say I am a realist, but I also know I can lean towards the overly critical.

So the sarcastic admonishment from my friend was well deserved.

And while it has been said before - and with great truth - that we are either preparing for a storm, walking through one, or coming out of one, we as Christians can not use these phrases as an excuse to have a negative view on this life we've been given.

Growing up in the Arizona desert, rain can come to feel like just as exciting of a phenomenon as snow on Christmas Day.

Things aren't much different here in Texas.

When it rain we immediately have to drive 10mph on roads where the normal speed limit is 65mph. We take videos, don't leave our houses, and will use it as an excuse to not go to the grocery store, run errands, or skip church.

You think I'm kidding...

Nevertheless rain is not something we can go without. Not even in Texas or Arizona.